Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Brazil
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“When I discovered that I’m black”: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-03-04 Jônatas Cordeiro da Silva Originally “When I discovered that I’m black: “I’ll tell my story, because I…
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Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…
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A call for end of the “Globeleza Mulata”: A Manifesto Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-02-08 Stephanie Ribeiro and Djamila Ribeiro Originally, “A Mulata Globeleza: Um Manifesto” from Agora é que são elas (2016-01-29). The Globeleza Mulata is not a natural cultural event, but a performance that…
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Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…